Aegis Cave

Aegis Cave	ばんにんのどうくつ; Watchman's Cave
Floors:	19 total
Rest stops:	4
Traps:	Yes
Monster Houses:	No
Main type:	Psychic, Poison, Fighting
Boss:	Regice; Regice Chamber; Regirock; Regirock Chamber; Registeel; Registeel Chamber; Regigigas; Hitmonlee ×4; Bronzong ×4; Regigigas Chamber
Recruiting:	Yes
Items:	48
Money:	Allowed
Starting level:	Current
Team members:	4

Aegis Cave (Japanese: ばんにんのどうくつ Watchman's Cave) is a dungeon in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness and Explorers of Sky. It is segmented into 4 sections, each home to one of the legendary giants.

After clearing Miracle Sea and subsequently clearing two or more jobs, Team Charm will visit Wigglytuff's Guild looking for a key kept by an old friend; this cutscene will unlock this dungeon.

The player's team first enters the cave with Team Charm. The exploration team first enters the first Stela Chamber; from there, if the I, C, and E stones are in the Treasure Bag the team can proceed to the Regice Chamber; if they do not have the required stones, the team enters Ice Aegis Cave, where these stones can be collected. After defeating Regice in the Regice Chamber, the team proceeds to the second Stela Chamber, where they will proceed either to the Rock Aegis Cave or Regirock Chamber depending on if they have the R, O, C, and K stones. After defeating Regirock in the Regirock Chamber, the team proceeds to the third Stela Chamber, where they will proceed either to the Steel Aegis Cave or Registeel Chamber depending on if they have the S, T, L stones and two E stones. After defeating Registeel, the team proceeds to the Aegis Cave Pit, where Regigigas is battled along with a group of four Hitmonlee and four Bronzong.

Unown stones are sometimes dropped by Unown when defeated; the stone dropped corresponds to the letter or symbol of the Unown knocked out. All 28 Unown stones can only be used as arc throwing items outside of Aegis Cave; all stones other than C, E, I, K, L, O, R, S, and T have no other use in the dungeon, either. They cause 60^TD or 90^S damage if thrown at a Pokémon (90 damage if the Pokémon has the IQ skill Power Pitcher) and can be sold for 10 Poké.

Unlike most other dungeons, the cave's waypoints have no exits. A player attempting to leave through the south will encounter an invisible wall, and will be unable to pass. The cave can only be left by completing it or by using an Escape Orb.

Gameplay

For the purpose of Treasure Boxes, Ice Aegis Cave is ranked E and ★1, Rock Aegis Cave is ranked ★1, Steel Aegis Cave is ranked ★2 and Aegis Cave Pit is ranked ★2 and ★3.

All floors are medium-sized and contain 3-9 rooms. There are 1-4 items on each floor on the ground and 4-7 buried in the walls. There are 2-4 starting enemies on each floor.

The IQ Booster activates on every even floor of Rock/Ice/Steel Aegis Cave, and every odd floor of Aegis Cave Pit. The turn limit is 1000. There is light darkness in the dungeon. There is water on every floor except for floor 1 of Ice Aegis Cave, floor 3 of Rock Aegis Cave and Aegis Cave Pit, and floor 2 of Steel Aegis Cave. The player cannot be rescued in this dungeon if knocked out. Non-boss enemies dungeon in this dungeon have 150IQ. Regirock, Regice and Registeel have 330IQ during their boss fight, while the bosses within the Regigigas Chamber all have 600IQ, granting them access to many IQ skills such as Intimidator or Extra Striker.

Floor difficulty level

Type	Ice B1F	Ice B2F, B3F, Rock B1-B3F	Steel B1-B4F, Pit B1F, B2F	Pit B3-B5F
Rank	E	★1	★2	★3

Pokémon encountered

The Unown are all considered separate species for the purpose of the internal spawn limit, which allows only 14 different species to spawn at the same time on a given floor. Since there are a total of 28 different Unown, it is possible that the game will not pick the Unown needed to progress further and the player will have to repeat the part. It is possible to check the current floor's spawning Unown forms by selecting the "Recruitment search" option in the menu.

Ice Aegis Cave

	Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
Zubat	B1-B3	16	5.5%
Golbat	B1-B3	45	-4.5%
Unown	B1-B3	43	8.2%

Regice Chamber

Pokémon		Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
	Regice	Regice Chamber	46	50%
Regice cannot be recruited on the first visit.

Rock Aegis Cave

	Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
Zubat	B1-B3	16-17	5.5%
Golbat	B1-B3	45-46	-4.5%
Unown	B1-B3	43-44	8.2%
Machoke	B2-B3	41	-4.5%
Machamp	B2-B3	47	-10%

Regirock Chamber

Pokémon		Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
	Regirock	Regirock Chamber	46	50%
Regirock cannot be recruited on the first visit.

Steel Aegis Cave

	Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
Zubat	B1-B4	17-18	5.5%
Golbat	B1-B4	46-47	-4.5%
Machoke	B1-B4	41-42	-4.5%
Machamp	B1-B4	47-48	-10%
Unown	B1-B4	44-45	8.2%

Registeel Chamber

Pokémon		Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
	Registeel	Registeel Chamber	46	50%
Registeel cannot be recruited on the first visit.

Aegis Cave Pit

	Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
Machoke	B1-B3	42-43	-4.5%
Machamp	B1-B3	48-49	-10%
Zubat	B1-B3, B5	18-19	5.5%
Golbat	B1-B3, B5	47-48	-4.5%
Crobat	B1-B5	44-45	-12%
Unown	B1-B5	45-46	8.2%
Mewtwo	B5 ^D	50	-22% *

Regigigas Chamber

Pokémon		Floors	Levels	Recruit Rate
	Hitmonlee	Regigigas Chamber	35	Unrecruitable
	Bronzong	Regigigas Chamber	35	Unrecruitable
	Regigigas	Regigigas Chamber	49	100% ^Boss
Regigigas cannot be recruited on the first visit. There are four Hitmonlee and four Bronzong as the boss.

Items

Ground

Item		Floors
	2-200 Poké	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	3-5 Gravelerock	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^S Gravelyrock	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Apple	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^T^S Blue Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^T^S Brown Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^T^S Grass Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^T^S Green Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^T^S Orange Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^T^S Silver Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^T^S Sky Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^T^S White Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^D^S Black Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^D^S Clear Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^D^S Gold Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^D^S Gray Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^D^S Pink Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^D^S Purple Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^D^S Red Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^D^S Royal Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^D^S Yellow Gummi	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Cheri Berry	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Oran Berry	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Pecha Berry	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^D^S Blinker Seed	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Doom Seed	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Reviver Seed	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^T^S Sleep Seed	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^T^S Warp Seed	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	^D^S X-Eye Seed	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Max Elixir	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Escape Orb	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F
	Key	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F

Buried items

Item		Floors
	2-200 Poké	I1-3F, R1-3F, S1-4F, P1-5F

Traps

The game will spawn 4 to 8 traps on each floor.

Image	Trap	Appearance %
	Chestnut Trap	5.18%^D/5.71%^S
	Explosion Trap	2.07%^D/5.71%^S
	Grimy Trap	11.76%^T/5.18%^D/5.71%^S
	Gust Trap	2.59%^D/5.71%^S
	Mud Trap	11.76%^T/5.18%^D/5.71%^S
	Pitfall Trap	5.19%^D/5.71%^S
	Poison Trap	11.77%^T/5.18%^D/5.71%^S
	Pokémon Trap	5.18%^D/5.71%^S
	PP-Zero Trap	11.76%^T/5.18%^D/5.72%^S
	Seal Trap	11.77%^T/2.59%^D/5.71%^S
	Selfdestruct Trap	1.56%^D/5.72%^S
	Slow Trap	11.77%^T/5.18%^D/5.72%^S
	Slumber Trap	5.88%^T/6.22%^D/2.86%^S
	Spin Trap	11.77%^T/4.66%^D/5.71%^S
	Sticky Trap	11.77%^T/2.59%^D/5.72%^S
	Summon Trap	5.18%^D/5.72%^S
	Trip Trap	2.59%^D/5.71%^S
	Warp Trap	5.18%^D/5.72%^S
	Wonder Tile	25.91%^D